`mapGridAscii` <-
function( inFile = ""
                         , numCats = 5  #numCategories in map, later add options for classifying
                         , logIndex = TRUE  #16/3/09 replaced by catMethod below
                         , we=-180, ea=180, so=-90, no=90  #so=-55, no=80 works well to exclude antarctic
                         , numHistBarsPerCat = 1
                         , addTo0ForLog = 0.01
                         , mapRegion = "world"   #sets map extents, overrides we,ea etc.
                         , titleHist=""
                         , addHist=FALSE
                         , addLegend=TRUE 
                         , addCountryOutlines=TRUE
                         , plotData=TRUE 
                         , catMethod="logFixedWidth"   #any vector defining breaks or "fixedWidth","quantiles","logFixedWidth"
                         , colourPalette= "heat" #"heat","white2Black","topo","palette" for current palette
                         , nameColumnToPlot = "" # only for multi-attribute spatialGridDataframes
                         , countryBorderCol = 'grey'
                         #, projection="none" #, "EqualArea"                          
                         )
   {  
  print("Use mapGriddedData instead")
       
    } #end of mapGridAscii function

